Re: 1.2m patients a year hit by NHS blunders


Uno-Hoo! wrote:


"Kim Bolton" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have gone through your most recent post, and was on the verge of
responding, but I have to say that the argument is becoming pedantic in the
extreme, and I feel little will be gained by continuing in this vein.

I am amazed by your reply.

You quote figures from an official report to support the points that
you originally made, yet when asked what they mean, what you read in
to them, and how they support your case, you class it as 'pedantry'.

Worse, you then go on to offer a straw-man as some form of
justification, the basis of which appears to be a thinly-disguised
mind-set, and then you accuse me of pedantry.

You also seem unable to differentiate between Apples and Oranges, yet
when this is pointed out to you, you fall back on an accusation of
pedantry.

In a way it is - there is not a person on this earth who does not make
mistakes, nor is there an organisation on this earth that does not make
mistakes. What makes me angry is that people appear ready to accept that
'mistakes will happen' with the NHS and other organisations - whereas with
the police people are only too ready to jump down their throats and
thoroughly condemn them.

What makes me angry is people who make assertions, attempt to justify
them with official figures that they cannot explain, introduce
straw-man arguments, fail to recognise the different bases of the
organisations which form the subject of the original points, and then,
when critical thinking is applied, rely on a jibe of 'pedantry'.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions. They are also entitled, if
they wish, to justify those opinions with evidence. It is in the
nature of a discussion forum such as this one, that opinions will
differ, and evidence can be countered or queried. That is why it is a
good idea to marshall one's thoughts *before* posting, rather than 'on
the fly' as the discussion unfolds.

Your original points were worthy of some discussion. What a shame it
is you couldn't rise to that.

.

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